American Studies

Resource hub including primary sources, biographies, and literary criticism of genre of Chicano/a Literature. "Contemporary Chicano/a literature came into prominence in the United States during the civil rights era of the 1960s, when Chicano/as fought alongside other minorities for fair and equal treatment in society."

Publications linked to the Chicano Movement of the 1960's and 70's and represent the Chicano voice on such key issues as voter rights, criminal justice and relations with the police, support for the anti-war movement, racism, and quality education.

Primary source accounts: photographs, oral histories, videos, essays and historical documents from the United Farm Worker Delano Grape Strikers and the UFW Volunteers who worked with Cesar Chavez to build his farmworker movement.

Documents and showcases historic Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s.

Digital collection of Latin American travel accounts written in the 16th-19th centuries.

Primary source set from Library of Congress. Includes maps, oral histories, photographs.

Virtual exhibits of newly launched Smithsonian museum.

This is a bilingual oral history archive that explores Latin American and Caribbean heritage in the US South. Listen to the first-hand perspectives of North Carolinians who share experiences of migration, settlement, demographic change, and leadership. In Spanish and English.

Digital Public Library of America primary source sets filtered by subject: Latino Americans. Topics include immigration and farmworker organizing.

Over 125,000 songs celebrating North America’s Spanish-language musical heritage